Tag: <span>Crisis</span>

POETRY

SHAME OF A NATION

Staff WriterOctober 3, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7915" align="aligncenter" width="315"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Shame Of A Nation][/caption]I. We chased the eagles Out of their homes, converged There to our folly horn... Shame of a nation Dropping like waterfall...

POETRY

NIGERIA-IN-DEPENDENCE

Staff WriterOctober 1, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7913" align="aligncenter" width="337"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nigeria-In-Dependence][/caption]Nigeria. Nigeria. Malaria. Pneumonia Boko. Haram. Jona. Athan Nigeria. Nigeria. Thieves in Power 'Herein is a Country!' Proclaimed Lugard Nurtured. Able-bodied. Now mature Yet. Abroad....

POETRY

CORRUPTION IN MY HOUSE

Staff WriterSeptember 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7774" align="aligncenter" width="389"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Corruption In My House][/caption]Corruption, please move out. I don't live with monsters. Bad governance, your brother, ask him of me. I wasn't kind when I...

POETRY

RAINS

Staff WriterSeptember 23, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7739" align="aligncenter" width="451"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Rains][/caption]The clouds are too busyweeping to see that we aresoaked to our ragged pantsand our genitals have retractedinto their shells, like irked snails.Whose lips shall...

POETRY

THOSE DAYS!

Staff WriterSeptember 13, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7530" align="alignnone" width="393"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Those Days][/caption]Those days when there was beautiful sunshine Dense fields, animals running across We all played, no separating line And picked the little *ross! Those...

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THE UNRIGHTEOUS CLIMAX

Staff WriterSeptember 8, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7400" align="aligncenter" width="415"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Unrighteous Climax][/caption]1. To find our stolen Peace, we light the torch of war. Until War carries a flamy head, we can't find Peace. Arrogant...

POETRY

TO WHOM SHOULD WE TURN

Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7320" align="aligncenter" width="430"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [To Whom Should We Turn][/caption]Spills of gunshots and flows of blood Were all we heard and all we saw Of brothers, now dead and gone...

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RAINBOWS IN THE SHADES

Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7315" align="aligncenter" width="446"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Rainbow In The Shades][/caption]Can you predict in which form the cloud will appear? No, my dear. Though the sun will always rise, Can you predict...

POETRY

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS

Staff WriterAugust 18, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_6998" align="aligncenter" width="492"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Crescent And The Cross][/caption]In this dark corner, I bend and brood On the desolation unleashed upon my land Such tremulous monody I’m wont to...

POETRY

VALOR

Staff WriterAugust 2, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_6666" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Valor][/caption] In one of my very loose wanderings I crawled into what I felt was my past Through the forbidden path of lust I mended...

Tag: Crisis

SHAME OF A NATION

NIGERIA-IN-DEPENDENCE

CORRUPTION IN MY HOUSE

RAINS

THOSE DAYS!

THE UNRIGHTEOUS CLIMAX

TO WHOM SHOULD WE TURN

RAINBOWS IN THE SHADES

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS

VALOR

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